rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Handbook of public economics
  name:
    name part: Auerbach, Alan J.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Handbook
  genre: handbooks.
  genre: Handbooks and manuals
  genre: Handbooks and manuals.
  genre: Guides et manuels.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    place:
      place term: Amsterdam
    publisher: North Holland/Elsevier
    date issued: ©2013
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
  abstract: In the Handbook of Public Economics, vol. 5, top scholars provide context and order to new research about mechanisms that underlie both public finance theories and applications. These fundamental subjects follow the recent, steady movement away from rational decision-making and toward more personalized approaches to tax generation and expenditure, especially in terms of the use of psychological methods and financial incentives. Closely scrutinized subjects include new research in empirical (instead of theoretical) public finance, the methods for measuring taxes (both in revenue gener.
  table of contents: Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the Series; Preface; List of Contributors; 1.Charitable Giving; 1 Introduction; 2 Background: Facts and Figures on Charitable Giving; 3 Approach 1: Individuals; 3.1 Preferences for Giving; 3.2 Analysis of Data on Individual Givers; 3.3 Households as Decision Makers; 3.4 Experiments on Individual Givers: Price; 3.5 Experiments on Individual Givers: Leadership Gifts; 3.6 Experiments on Individual Givers: Give more Tomorrow; 3.7 The Salience of Incentives to Give; 4 Approach 2: The Charitable Sector as a Market
  table of contents: 4.1 Theories of Charity from the Supply Side4.2 Econometric Evidence; 4.3 Evidence from Field Experiments; 4.4 Further Evidence from Experiments; 5 Approach 3: Giving as a Social Act; 5.1 Audience Effects; 5.2 The Power of the Ask; 5.3 Diversity and the Socio-economics of Giving; 6 Approach 4: The Giver's Mind; 6.1 Social Costs of Social Pressure; 6.2 Avoiding the Ask; 6.3 Is Fundraising Bad for Society?; 7 Fundraising and the Giver's Mind; 7.1 Charity Auctions; 7.2 Motivational Crowding; 7.3 Peer Pressure; 7.4 The Giving Habit; 7.5 Giving to Disasters; 7.6 Giving Bundled with Consuming
  table of contents: 8 ConclusionReferences; 2.Taxation and Development; 1 Introduction; 2 Perspectives on Taxation and Development; 3 Background Facts; 4 Framework; 5 Drivers of Change; 5.1 Economic Development; 5.2 Politics; 5.3 Value of Public Spending; 5.4 Non-Tax Revenues; 5.5 Compliance Technologies; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3.Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data; 1 Introduction; 2 Motivations for Social Insurance; 2.1 Adverse Selection: Review of the Basic Theory; 2.1.1 A Stylized Model; 2.1.2 The Textbook Case
  table of contents: 2.1.3 Departures from the Textbook Environment: Loads and Preference Heterogeneity2.2 Empirical Evidence on Selection; 2.2.1 Testing for Selection; 2.2.2 Evidence on Selection; 2.2.3 Welfare Consequences; 2.2.4 Directions for Future Work; 2.3 Other Motivations; 3 Design of Public Insurance Programs; 3.1 Optimal Benefit Level in a Static Model; 3.2 Sufficient Statistics Implementation; 3.2.1 Consumption Smoothing; 3.2.2 Liquidity vs. Moral Hazard; 3.2.3 Reservation Wages; 3.3 Generalizing the Static Model; 3.3.1 Dynamics: Endogenous Savings and Borrowing Constraints
  table of contents: 3.3.2 Externalities on Private Insurers3.3.3 Externalities on Government Budgets; 3.3.4 Other Externalities; 3.3.5 Imperfect Optimization; 3.4 Other Dimensions of Policy; 3.4.1 Liquidity Provision and Mandated Savings Accounts; 3.4.2 Imperfect Takeup; 3.4.3 Path of Benefits; 4 Challenges for Future Work; Acknowledgments; References; 4.Urban Public Finance; 1 Introduction; 2 The Functions and Powers of City Governments; 3 The Core Economics of Urban Government; 3.1 The Formation of Cities and their Economies; 3.2 Urban Externalities; 3.3 Decentralization and Local Government
  note: edited by Alan J. Auerbach [and others].
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Finance, Public
    genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc
  subject:
    topic: Finances publiques
    genre: Guides, manuels, etc
  subject:
    topic: Finance, Public
  classification: HJ141 .A98 2013
  classification: 336
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Handbooks in economics ; v. 5C
  identifier: 9780444537591
  identifier: CL0500000288 Safari Books Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UMI
    record creation date: 130913
    record change date: 20260326195330.6
    record identifier: in00005752982
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng